What Captain Jack Sparrow Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship

What Captain Jack Sparrow Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship

I was blissfully enjoying The Pirates of
the Caribbean
with my family and my ears perked up when Jack was having a conversation
with Elizabeth on the desserted island. Elizabeth said:

…you’ll be positively the most fearsome pirates in the Spanish Main.

to which Jack replied:

Not just the Spanish Main, luv. The entire ocean. The entire world.
Wherever we want to go, we’ll go. That’s what a ship is, you know.
It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a
ship needs but what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is…

I knew exactly what Jack was going to say.

…what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom.

I look for inspiration in about every aspect of my life. I could
probably be inspired by watching a cactus grow. However, this is
different. To quote Harry Beckwith: “Fiction teaches us about people.”
Seriously, it does. How about when Huckelberry Finn convinced everyone
it was fun to paint the fence? He taught us a bit about motivation. What
did The Great Gatsby teach us? It taught us about money and superficial
relationships. But, I digress. I can save that for another blog post.

Regardless, Jack Sparrow shows us that successful people persevere. In
every successful person’s biography, there are always tails of
perseverance. ALWAYS. Gurbaksh
Chahal, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Nick
Vujicic,
Trent Hamm, and Tony
Hseih
all have this trait in common. Don’t forget it. When shit has you down,
remember, that to be successful, you have to be able to persevere.